Dominic Hughes at the BBC asks: “Has the international financial crisis exposed the cracks in the European Union’s single market? And are concerns over the economic national interest now over-riding the broader goal of European integration? These are the questions being asked by those committed to an "ever closer union" referred to in the words of the EU’s founding Treaty of Rome. They are worried about the way countries are acting to prop up their own banks and financial institutions.” Read the article here.
